Harvey, the rapidly growing legal AI firm, has acquired Hexus, a two-year-old startup specializing in creating product demonstrations, videos, and guides. This move signals Harvey’s continued aggressive growth strategy in a highly competitive legal technology sector.
Sakshi Pratap, the founder and CEO of Hexus and a former engineer at Walmart, Oracle, and Google, informed TechCrunch that her San Francisco-based team has already integrated into Harvey. The India-based Hexus engineers will join once Harvey establishes an office in Bangalore. Pratap further stated that she will lead an engineering division focused on enhancing Harvey’s offerings for corporate legal departments.
Pratap commented, “We’re contributing extensive experience in developing enterprise AI tools in related problem domains to Harvey. This specialized knowledge will enable Harvey to progress more quickly in an increasingly competitive market.”
Prior to its acquisition, Hexus secured $1.6 million in funding from investors including Pear VC, Liquid 2 Ventures, and various angel investors. While Pratap did not disclose the specifics of the deal, she mentioned that the arrangement emphasized “long-term team incentives.”
This acquisition occurs as Harvey strives to solidify its standing as a prominent AI startup. The company confirmed last fall that its valuation has reached $8 billion, having raised $160 million, bringing its total funding for 2025 to $760 million. Andreessen Horowitz led this latest funding round, with new participation from T. Rowe Price and WndrCo, alongside existing investors Sequoia Capital, Kleiner Perkins, Conviction, and angel investor Elad Gil. (The year began with a $3 billion valuation after Sequoia led a $300 million Series D round for the company.)
Harvey now serves over 1,000 clients across 60 countries, including a significant portion of the top 10 U.S. law firms.
In a November interview with TechCrunch, co-founder and CEO Winston Weinberg recounted Harvey’s origins, tracing them back to a cold email sent to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. Weinberg, then a first-year associate at O’Melveny & Myers, and co-founder Gabe Pereyra, a researcher who had worked at Google DeepMind and Meta and was Weinberg’s roommate at the time, experimented with GPT-3 on landlord-tenant legal questions from Reddit. When they presented the AI-generated responses to attorneys, two out of three indicated they would send 86 out of 100 responses without any modifications.
Weinberg reflected, “That was the pivotal moment when we realized this technology could revolutionize the entire industry.”
They sent an email to Altman on July 4, 2022, had a call that same morning, and secured their initial investment from the OpenAI Startup Fund shortly thereafter. According to Weinberg, the OpenAI Startup Fund remains Harvey’s second-largest investor.